Profanity Quotes - Page 5

• I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

  Bill Cosby

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• [Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."

  Edward Snowden

  Two, Nsa, Google

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• I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

  Sheldon Harnick

  Curious, Used, Obscenity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.

  Ursula Vernon

  Book, Kids, Thinking

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• Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

  Bill Cosby

  Unique, Misunderstood, Use

  "Bill Cosby sounds like less of a prude now" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2007.

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• But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.

  Max von Essen

  Beautiful, Real, Ideas

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Vincent Price (1959). “I Like what I Know: A Visual Autobiography”

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• Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

  Robert McKee

  Use, Way, Reason

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• In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humorous, Today

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• The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.

  Randall Wright

  Sex, Television, Today

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• A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Humorous, Delicacy

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.22

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• I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Daughter, Wife, Used

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• I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Q&A: Bill Cosby Talks Family, Faith and Tim Tebow". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Do you want me crucified for my profanity?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Unanswered Questions, Want, Do You Want Me

  Song: You're No Different

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• Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.

  Wesley Willis

  Rocks, Cities, Looks

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• I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

  Howard Stern

  Funny, Bored, Boring

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• Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Technology, America, Needs

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• We only speak two languages here: English and profanity.

  Kevin Constantine

  Hockey, Nhl, Two

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• The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Voice, Filthy

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.55, Arcturus Publishing

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• Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Humorous, Aunt

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.67, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

  Simon Sinek

  Philosophy, Personality, Leader

  "Don't Be So Tough: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Always Trying, Touching, Heartbreaking

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